Recently, the students in Mr. Pamuk’s class have been learning about Motion and Force. Students gained a lot of knowledge and experience through experiments and hands on activities so far. Very last thing that the kids built in Science was fan motor cars. Students used their own imagination and designed and built their vehicles out of K’nex pieces.

What a great start to a new school year! I am the Secretary here at TMSA and am here to assist you all as much as I can. Thank you to all our parents that have been supportive and given their time to help make TMSA a success. You do not know how much we appreciate you!

Children at TMSA are in the process of familiarizing themselves with simple concepts in the subjects of melody (for now, based on a major scale), and rhythm. Students in grades K-2 have begun to learn the major scale, which is an essential building block in musical melodies.

First and foremost I want to thank all the parents that have been making this year so successful! Please sign your child in when they are tardy. When children are absent or leaving early please inform the homeroom teacher by email of the circumstances. You do not need to let me or Mrs. Wood know.

Students in 7th grade science class have been learning about Motion and Forces. Last week, my students were busy with learning about Newton’s Motion Laws. They gained knowledge by answering some practical questions in worksheets as well as designing and building their cars. Once they built the cars, they also tested them out and experienced how mass is really affecting the acceleration.

For the past eight days Miss Kenney’s Kindergartners have been practicing building their Reading “Stimina” Stamina and choosing “Good Fit Books”. On Thursday, they exceeded their daily goal of reading eight minutes, by reading for 10 minutes!

In science Olympiad Team, there is variety of topics that we are teaching our children. We are building rockets, mousetrap vehicle, elastic launch glider, as well as studying events such as anatomy, solar system, water quality, rocks and minerals, entomology, simple machines, disease detectives and so on.

Here are the results from the 2013 Local Events for the North Carolina Math Competition! The students listed below have qualified for the State Finals Competition on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. If your kid has qualified, you will receive a confirmation email in the next few days and you can read more details about the event on the State Finals page.

First grade is learning what a sentence is and we are really practicing our punctuation skills. On Wednesday, we played “Red Light, Green Light” with punctuation. It was a great way to practice what our different punctuation marks looked like, while practicing some gross motor skills and burning some energy! J The next step is to take it from just being able to recognize our punctuation marks and using them with expression in our reading!

As we all know, our students in 4th – 7th grade carry around a lot of heavy books in their backpacks. To help the students with their homework load and the weight of the physical load that they carry home at night, the 4th-7th grade teachers decided that our students are more than welcome to keep their books that they do not need to take home at night in their classroom. Also, the 4th-7th grade teachers have a homework schedule for which nights they will assign homework.

The first month of the school year is over and we are loving the pace we have in place so far.

Students received their first quarter Progress Reports today. Please sign and send the bottom of the reports card back to the homeroom teachers. You can also monitor your child’s performance on the PowerSchool. So far, 82% of students’ records were accessed online. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you are having login problems.

We have received our smartboards. They are scheduled to be installed on October 21. The anticipated arrival date for lockers is October 25. The main gate will be finished by the end of October.

The 2013-14 school climate parent survey is ready. Please find the link below and complete your survey. We need to hear from you. Your voice matters and the deadline is October 18, 2013.